footlicking

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noun

sycophantic behavior

Scrabble 21
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Meanings

nounfootlicking (uncountable)
  1. uncountablesycophantic behavior
  2. uncountableThe act of licking someone's feet.

    Perhaps, in some variation of Joe Buck's gay hustler in John Schlesinger's 1969 classic Midnight Cowboy, Anna was being sucked into the footlicking scene for want of making the big time, getting in a good group show, or being able to ...

    2009, Daniel Nester, How to Be Inappropriate, Catapult, →ISBN
adjectivefootlicking (not comparable)
  1. not comparablesycophantic

    I think it was William the Conqueror, whose portly belly led the fashion among the foot-licking nobles of his court; and in compliment to his majesty they all appeared with ventrical protuberances.

    1822, The Literary Speculum, volume 2, page 303
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APA

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MLA

“footlicking.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/footlicking. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “footlicking,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/footlicking.

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